Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:29:48 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Lou Katz <lou@metron.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Interest in diskless booting? Message-ID: <20021210015948.GR1952@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021209174813.A55098@metron.com> References: <20021208021835.GI96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021209174813.A55098@metron.com>
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On Monday, 9 December 2002 at 17:48:14 -0800, Lou Katz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:48:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I was at a local installfext yesterday >> (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were >> interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or >> reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the >> fourth edition of "The Complete FreeBSD", and I was wondering if there >> was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. >> If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision >> depending on the amount of feedback I get. > > Absolutely - especially how to configure a machine to boot and run from such > things as compact flash. That's a hardware issue. Most BIOSes don't support it. It's certainly worth following up on, but I won't go beyond mentioning the possibility in the book. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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